Cangue: an ancient Chinese punishing device (85–98) We're going to go a little shorter this week. I've got Madame Bovary and The Crying of Lot 49 to read.
👀 Observations
So much cheese and so many carriages:
Cantal (a hard cheese of France), chedar, cheese, cheshire (a hard English cheese), and chevre (a cheese made from goat's milk). Caseate: to become cheesy. Caseous: cheesy.
Cariole/carriole (a small, open carriage), caroach/caroch/caroche/carroch (a stately carriage), carriage, carryall (a light, covered carriage), chaise (a light carriage).
👀 Observations
So much cheese and so many carriages:
Cantal (a hard cheese of France), chedar, cheese, cheshire (a hard English cheese), and chevre (a cheese made from goat's milk). Caseate: to become cheesy. Caseous: cheesy.
Cariole/carriole (a small, open carriage), caroach/caroch/caroche/carroch (a stately carriage), carriage, carryall (a light, covered carriage), chaise (a light carriage).
⚛ Units of the Week
Candela: a unit of light intensity
Carat: a unit of weight for gems
Carcel: a unit of illumination
Carolus: an old English coin
Cattie: an Asian unit of weight
Cavalry: a mobile army unit
Cedi: a monetary unit of Ghana
Cent: the 100th part of a dollar
Cental: a unit of weight
Centar: a measure of land area
Centas: a monetary unit of Lithuania (genitive case, singular form of centų. 100 centų equals 1 litas, although they're expecting to switch to the euro 1 Jan 2015)
Centavo: a coin of vaious Spanish-American nations
Centime: the 100th part of a franc
Centimo: any of various small coins
Centner: a unit of weight
Centum: one hundred
Century: a period of 100 years
Chaldron: a unit of dry measure
Chao: a monetary unit of Vietnam
Checksum: a sum derived form bits of computer data
Chetrum: a monetary unit of Bhutan
!!! Words of the Week
Candle, v.: to examine eggs in front of a light
Candler: one that candles
Canities: the turning gray of the hair
Canoodle: to caress
Catnaper: one that steals cats
Cattery: an establishment for breeding cats
Ceil: to furnish with a ceiling
Centesis: a surgical puncture
Cete: a group of badgers (insert Weird Al’s UHF obligatory badger quote here)
Chalazia: tumors of the eyelid
Charnel: a room where corpses are placed
Chevron: a V-shaped pattern
♡ Favorite Words of the Week
Canard: a false story
Caninity: the state of being a dog
Capric: pertaining to a goat
Catspaw: a light wind
Cepheid: a giant star
Certes: in truth
Candela: a unit of light intensity
Carat: a unit of weight for gems
Carcel: a unit of illumination
Carolus: an old English coin
Cattie: an Asian unit of weight
Cavalry: a mobile army unit
Cedi: a monetary unit of Ghana
Cent: the 100th part of a dollar
Cental: a unit of weight
Centar: a measure of land area
Centas: a monetary unit of Lithuania (genitive case, singular form of centų. 100 centų equals 1 litas, although they're expecting to switch to the euro 1 Jan 2015)
Centavo: a coin of vaious Spanish-American nations
Centime: the 100th part of a franc
Centimo: any of various small coins
Centner: a unit of weight
Centum: one hundred
Century: a period of 100 years
Chaldron: a unit of dry measure
Chao: a monetary unit of Vietnam
Checksum: a sum derived form bits of computer data
Chetrum: a monetary unit of Bhutan
!!! Words of the Week
Candle, v.: to examine eggs in front of a light
Candler: one that candles
Canities: the turning gray of the hair
Canoodle: to caress
Catnaper: one that steals cats
Cattery: an establishment for breeding cats
Ceil: to furnish with a ceiling
Centesis: a surgical puncture
Cete: a group of badgers (insert Weird Al’s UHF obligatory badger quote here)
Chalazia: tumors of the eyelid
Charnel: a room where corpses are placed
Chevron: a V-shaped pattern
♡ Favorite Words of the Week
Canard: a false story
Caninity: the state of being a dog
Capric: pertaining to a goat
Catspaw: a light wind
Cepheid: a giant star
Certes: in truth
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